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Definition of Great skua
1. Noun. Large brown skua of the northern Atlantic.
Definition of Great skua
1. Noun. A large seabird, ''Stercorarius skua''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Skua
Literary usage of Great skua
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wild Life at Home: How to Study and Photograph it by Richard Kearton (1901)
"One pair of birds, having a newly-hatched chick and chipped egg in their nest,
were particularly EGO AND YOUNG OF great skua. demonstrative and repeatedly ..."
2. The Nests and Eggs of British Birds: When and where to Find Them : Being a by Charles Dixon (1894)
"BRITISH BREEDING AREA : The great skua is another excessively local species ...
BREEDING HABITS : The great skua is best known on our shores as a coasting ..."
3. Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880-1896 by James Robert Vernam Marchant, Watkin Watkins (1897)
"*SKUA includes great skua or ... The great skua breeds in the Shetlands but no
where else in the British Isles. ..."
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